Mr. Bertie Ahern:

In your last ... you asked me about ten questions. In your last question you ... about can I address ... I had two very good friends who died from suicide in the '90s. I never should have said that. And three minutes after I came off the stage, I apologised for that. That was just a totally wrong thing to say. But what I was talking about that day was confidence, that yes things were getting more difficult, and was before liquidity. But I was talking to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in Donegal and I was saying "Listen, we have to have confidence, we have to have belief, we have to work together, we have to pull together." And I'm sure you've seen that speech. And, unscripted then I, unfortunately, said that and, of course, like lots of things in life, everyone forgets what I said in the rest of that speech. But I think that speech was a speech of trying to give confidence and stability and I don't think there was anything wrong that.